Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974), Pick Up Time, Barnegat Bay

Lot 140

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Lot Description

Milton C. Weiler (1910-1974)
Pick Up Time, Barnegat Bay, 1969
signed "M C Weiler" lower right
watercolor, 19 by 26 3/4 in.

This work was published as a popular limited-edition print by the Winchester Press, making it Weiler's most celebrated work.

As a conservationist and an outdoorsman, Milton C. Weiler lived the life he painted, and his watercolors have authenticity as a result.

According to John T. Ordeman and Bud Weiler, “Milt Weiler was a watercolorist who could recreate in his paintings the look and feel of a winter waterfowl marsh, autumn upland bird cover, a spring trout stream and a summer salmon river in the manner of the tradition established by the artist whose works had inspired him, Winslow Homer. Weiler was also a carver of decoys, ducks of such sculptural beauty that they won him top awards in the most prestigious working decoy and decorative bird carving competitions...Weiler created covers and illustrations for many sporting magazines, and he earned accolades as an illustrator of volumes by many of the foremost authors of sporting books - Eugene Connett...among them.”

Nelson Bryant of "The New York Times," comments, "Weiler was considered one of the most accomplished painters of hunting and fishing scenes in the country, and he was also an expert carver of decoys."

Provenance: Literature: John T. Ordeman & M. C. 'Bud' Weiler Jr., "The Art of Milton C. Weiler: A Sportsman's World," Sugar Hill, NH, 2001, pp. 60-61, illustrated.

Provenance: Charles S. Hunter, III, acquired from Stephen O'Brien Jr. Fine Arts
Private Collection, New York

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